UK rioters will be forced to pay in a deal to reduce reoffending

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Nick Clegg sid rioters will have to clean up the communities they attackedJeff Overs/BBC/Reuters

Michael SavagePolitical Correspondent

Published at 12:01AM, August 17 2011

All prisoners are to be forced to join a government jobs programme the moment they are released in a drive to end the “dismal cycle” of repeat offending, Nick Clegg has disclosed.

Some of those found guilty of rioting and looting last week will also be forced to wear high-visibility jackets and clean up the communities that they helped to destroy, he said. He also announced the creation of a “communities and victims” panel to examine the causes of the disturbances.

The independent panel will be set up after Mr Clegg brokered an agreement that both David Cameron and Ed